But certainly Hunter's Hall is a long way from the town, and that is a disadvantage.' "A _very_ long way it seemed before we got there.
"'I could fancy we had been driving nearly twenty miles instead of eight,' said Mary, when at last the carriage stopped before a sort of little lodge, and the driver informed us we must get out there, there being no carriage drive up to the house.
"'Objection number one,' said Mary, as we picked our steps along the garden path which led to the front door.

'Father would not like to have to walk along here every time he went out a drive.

Dear me!' she added, 'how dreadfully difficult it is to judge of any place in snow! The house looks so dirty, and yet very likely in summer it is a pretty bright white house.' "It was not a bad little house: there were two or three good rooms downstairs and several fairly good upstairs, besides a number of small inconvenient rooms that might have been utilised by a very large family, but would be no good at all to us.

Then the kitchens were poor, low-roofed, and straggling.
"'It might do,' said Mary doubtfully.

'It is more the look of it than anything else that I dislike.